Olivia Kaplan

Enjoy free live music every Thursday upstairs at the Second Story. Doors open at 6PM, music starts at 7PM. No RSVP needed—seating is first come, first served, with entry based on capacity. Olivia Kaplan (b. 1992, California) is a musician based in Los Angeles. Her songs explore the secret bonds between grief and time, slowness and memory, sadness and sleep. Her upcoming album, Afterlife, asks how death shapes our deepest-held beliefs and rearranges our sensory experience of the world. Although each song serves as a foothold, no hold is made to last, and in this way, the listener is reminded how patternless loss can be. Made in collaboration with low-fi innovator and producer Evan Wright (June McDoom), the record lives in the sonics of sparseness but finds its lifeline in Olivia’s voice – blue and sunlit – sinking like a warm anchor. Following the release of her critically acclaimed debut LP Tonight Turns To Nothing (2021) on Topshelf Records, Olivia toured North America extensively with Billie Marten. She has also shared the stage with The War on Drugs, Katie Gavin, Cassandra Jenkins, Miya Folick, Buck Meek, Hand Habits, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Helena Deland, and Courtney Marie Andrews. Olivia studied voice and ethnomusicology at McGill University and UCLA. Her songwriting is equally inspired by Bill Callahan, Sheryl Crow, and Neil Young as it has been compared to Cat Power and Cowboy Junkies.